treun

Irish

Adjective

treun

1. Obsolete spelling of tréan.

Mutation

Mutated forms of treun

radical	lenition	eclipsis
treun	threun	dtreun

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish trén (“strong”), from Proto-Celtic *trexsnos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)treg- (“to be stiff, rigid, strong”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪ʰɾʲeːn/

Adjective

treun (comparative trèine or treasa)

1. (higher register) strong

   Synonym: làidir

2. sturdy

   Tha am bòrd glè threun! ― The table is very sturdy!

3. brave

Mutation

Mutation of treun

radical	lenition
treun	threun

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “treun”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language